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Sunday, October 4, 2015

The Endurance

This is another picture from the 1915 Shackleton Expedition to Antarctica. The picture shows the endurance getting crushed by the ice. This stranded the expedition on an ice flow. Miraculously they survived. It is an amazing story of human endurance and survival. You can read the entire story in Shackleton's book which is available online at Project Gutenberg:

About Me

I grew up in West Texas, and could not wait to get away. I got away, and went to the University of Texas, and then on to Stanford. I saw the world, and decided what I really wanted was to be in West Texas. So here I am, right back where I started. I had it all, and found it was not that great.

I have been an avid collector of old photographs and documents for over 30
years. The photographs on this site are derived from material I have collected
over the years. Some came from old family albums, some from material I bought at
flea markets over the years, and some from government archives of public domain
images, including the US Library of Congress, and the National Archives. We
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